BIO: AUTHOR OF HISTORICAL FICTION
JEFF SCHNADER is an author of fiction living in atlanta, ga (Formerly from Norfolk, VA)
His Vietnam War era novel, The Serpent Papers, was published by the traditional publishing house, The Permanent Press, in March, 2022. It has been reviewed in major newspapers & magazines and on radio. He was at Columbia University in 1972 where he participated in sit-ins, marches and demonstrations against the Vietnam War, including a protest-turned-riot in front of Hamilton Hall where students were beaten by the New York Tactical Police in full battle regalia. Scenes in The Serpent Papers are authentic because he was there.
The Serpent Papers was "GRAND PRIZE WINNER" ($500 Prize) for 2nd Place overall in the FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS and 1st Place Winner for "Outstanding Historical Fiction" by the Independent Authors Network, 2023. It was also the "Bronze Winner" in the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards (historical fiction, 2022).
The Serpent Papers was a Finalist in the Indie Excellence Awards, 2023; Finalist in the 20th ANNUAL BEST BOOK AWARDS, 2023; Finalist in the Chanticleer Goethe Awards (2023); and Short-Listed Finalist in the 2021 Blue Moon Novel Competition. The book was a 2023 “Staff Pick” of VFW MAGAZINE’S BOOK CORNER (Feb 2023). It has also been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and a Chautauqua Award, among others.
Selected chapters from The Serpent Papers and Schnader's short stories, The Oma, and Durango, were published in The Write Launch Literary Journal.
Schnader's short story, The Champion, won 1st prize in the 2020 Annual Quills Contest of LUW (Prize $75) and was published in the October, 2022, issue of the Arlington Literary Journal (ArLiJo).
Schnader won the Award for Best Pitch at the Atlanta Writers Conference, 2025, awarded by Literary Agent Joelle Delbourgo of Joelle Delbourgo Associates.
His essays have been published in Audere Literary Magazine, Bookscover2cover, and The Write Launch. He has been interviewed on radio across America and Europe over 30 times, including stations in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Madrid and London, as well as on NPR and in print in Foreword Reviews, Bookscover2cover, and the Columbia Fiction Foundry.
An excerpt of his forthcoming novel, To Be Hamlet (under the name "Star Chamber"), was published October, 2022, in Audere Literary Magazine (see below).
He is a member of Atlanta Writers Club, Southeastern Writers Association, Hampton Roads Writers, Authors Guild, and Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. He is a lifetime member of The De Vere Society (UK),
After graduating from Columbia with a BA in physics, he received his medical degree (MD, CM) from McGill University with further work at Johns Hopkins. He recently retired as full Professor of Medicine after authoring over 50 scientific publications and chairing & speaking at hundreds of national medical conferences. He was a frequent guest on National Public Radio's (NPR's) “Sound Health” and has been awarded for teaching and for editing a renowned medical journal. He worked full-time in the Department of Veteran’s Affairs for 22 years (15 years running an ICU), serving American war veterans, including those of The Vietnam War.
FOR LINKS TO HIS PUBLICATIONS, please see his home page
The author in the Marais, Paris, France
PUBLISHED LITERARY PIECES BY THE AUTHOR
SELECTED PUBLISHED ESSAYS, SHORT STORIES & INTERVIEWS BY THE AUTHOR:
ARLINGTON LITERARY JOURNAL:
PUBLISHED SHORT STORY- "The Champion" (Oct 2022; Issue 165)
1st Prize Winner of the 2020 Quills Contest (LUW)
https://www.arlijo.com/post/issue-165
AUDERE LITERARY MAGAZINE
Author Page: https://auderemagazine.com/?s=schnader
AUDERE LITERARY MAGAZINE (May 2022):
PUBLISHED ESSAY- "Revisiting Columbia's Vietnam Protests: Why I Wrote The Serpent Papers"
See also on FB (May 12, 2022 entry): https://www.facebook.com/chickadeeprince/
AUDERE LITERARY MAGAZINE (Oct 9, 2022):
ADVANCED PUBLICATION OF CHAPTER 1 from the forthcoming novel
"STAR CHAMBER- The Question"
https://auderemagazine.com/2022/10/09/star-chamber-the-question/
BOOKSCOVER2COVER (Dec 21, 2021)
PUBLISHED ESSAY- "My Pilgrimmage to Publication" by Jeff Schnader: https://bookscover2cover.com/essays/my-pilgrimage-to-publication/
BOOKSCOVER2COVER (Jan 4, 2022)
INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR:
https://bookscover2cover.com/interviews/jeff-schnader/
COLUMBIA FICTION FOUNDRY (Feb 9, 2022)
PUBLISHED ESSAY- "My Pilgrimage to Publication" https://fictionfoundry.alumni.columbia.edu/jeff_schnader_debut
FOREWORD REVIEWS (Feb 4, 2022)
INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR:
THE WRITE LAUNCH LITERARY JOURNAL
Author Page: https://thewritelaunch.com/author/j-schnader/
THE WRITE LAUNCH LITERARY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED SHORT STORY- "The Oma" (Aug 2021): https://thewritelaunch.com/2021/08/the-oma/
THE WRITE LAUNCH LITERARY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED SHORT STORY- "Durango" (Dec 2021): https://thewritelaunch.com/2021/12/durango/
STAR CHAMBER - The Question, illustration from Audere Magazine
BIO: PHYSICIAN, PROFESSOR, editor, writer & speaker
EDUCATION, LANGUAGE FLUENCY, NPR GUEST EXPERT, MEMBERSHIPS
University & Degrees:
BA, Columbia University
MD, CM McGill University
Graduate Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University
Specialty Board Certifications (ABIM)
Internal Medicine
Pulmonary Medicine Subspecialty
Critical Care Medicine
Graduate Fellowship:
The Johns Hopkins University in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine and Environmental Physiology & Public Health
Languages Spoken fluently:
English
French:
Recipient: "Attestation d'une connaissance de la langue officielle," Office de la Langue Francaise du Quebec
NPR Guest Expert: He has appeared on NPR’s member station WMUB over 20 times on the show Sound Health as Guest Expert Speaker, fielding questions from the radio listening audience on smoking, lung disease and critical care while live on the air. He was Associate Producer for some shows.
EDITOR, PROFESSOR, Physician, speaker
Professor: Dr Schnader was promoted to full Professor in 2005. He was on faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Wright State University, and Eastern Virginia Medical College.
Speaker: An experienced teacher and speaker, Dr Schnader delivers prepared or extemporaneous lectures. He has spoken at national conferences over 130 times to audiences numbering between 100 and 1000 attendee physicians & scientists. He has chaired symposia, expert panels and post-graduate courses for national audiences more than 35 times. He has lectured locally extensively.
Editorial Board & Departmental Editor, CHEST, Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians, for which he was awarded a Letter of Commendation for Editorial Excellence & Quality from CHEST's Editor-in-Chief.
Editorial Reviewer for: Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Women’s Health, European Respiratory Journal, Veteran’s Administration Grant Funding, American Journal of Physiology, Heart & Circulatory Physiology, among others.
Selected Visiting Professorships: University of Miami, University of South Florida, State University of New York, Dartmouth College, Albert Einstein University, Sloan-Kettering Memorial Medical Center, Columbia University, among others.
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Medical Student Newspaper, for which he was awarded a Letter of Dean's Commendation, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS & MEDICAL FICTION SCENE WRITING
medical writer: SELECTED publications & accolades
AUTHOR IN THE SCIENCES:
Dr Schnader has authored over fifty published medical & scientific articles, reviews, textbook chapters & research papers in multiple peer review journals, some with hundreds of citations in the scientific literature (see Google Scholar at: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C47&q=j+schnader&btnG= .)
Published in prestigious journals (selected list):
New England Journal of Medicine; Journal of Applied Physiology (American Physiological Society); CHEST (Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians); American Review of Respiratory Disease (American Thoracic Society); Critical Care Medicine (Society of Critical Care Medicine); International Journal of Dermatology (International Society of Dermatology); Journal of Surgical Research (Association for Academic Surgery)
Principal Investigator of Grants (selected list):
The National Institutes of Health
The American Lung Association
Department of Veterans Affairs
Prestigious Positions Held (selected list):
Inaugural Chair, Pulmonary Vascular Network, American College of Chest Physicians
Chair, Clinical Pulmonary Network, American College of Chest Physicians
President, Ohio Thoracic Society
Trustee, Chest Foundation, American College of Chest Physicians
Governor, American College of Chest Physicians
MEDICAL FICTION SCENE WRITING COACH & EDITOR
LITERARY MEMBERSHIPS:
Author's Guild (Platinum Member)
Columbia Fiction Foundry
Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship
De Vere Society, UK
Hampton Roads Writers
Atlanta Writers Club
Southeast Writers Association
MEDICAL FICTION AUTHOR & COACH
After a long and distinguished career as a physician, journal editor & published science writer, Dr Jeff Schnader retains the required skills for authentic clinical medical description. These skills are an asset in his role as a writing coach for authentic & accurate medical fiction scenes.
He is a resource for other writers who may wish to create fictional scenes involving disease, including critical illness & chronic medical disorders. He is able to teach others how to construct realistic scenes in ambulances, hospitals, sickbeds & intensive care units. He is also adept at coaching authors on how to depict sick & dying characters and how to write believable medical dialog with authentic use of medical jargon & vocabulary.
In 2021, he was invited to convene a session at the 19th Annual James River Writers Conference on:
"Writing Fictional Medical Scenes."
(see: https://jamesriverwriters.org/conference2021/)
CONTACT him to set up a consultation concerning authentic medical scene writing for novels or television & film scripts
AUTHOR'S CITATIONS AS SEEN ON THE INTERNET
WEBSITES FEATURING THE AUTHOR &/OR "THE SERPENT PAPERS," "THE STAR CHAMBER," ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, ETC:
AMERICAN LEGION: https://www.legion.org/yourwords/books/253579/serpent-papers
Legiontown: http://www.legiontown.org/ownwords/8024/serpent-papers
AUDERE LITERARY MAGAZINE:
PUBLISHED ESSAY- "Revisiting Columbia's Vietnam Protests: Why I Wrote The Serpent Papers" (May 2022)
AUDERE LITERARY MAGAZINE:
ADVANCED PUBLICATION OF CHAPTER 1 from the forthcoming novel
"THE STAR CHAMBER- The Question"
https://audere.chickadeeprince.com/2022/10/09/star-chamber-the-question/
AUTHORS GUILD:
Author's Guild Spotlight (2-11-22): https://www.authorsguild.org/the-writing-life/member-spotlight-jeff-schnader/
Author Site: https://go.authorsguild.org/members/5798
AUTHORS GUILD:
Awards Announcements for Jeff Schnader (6-23-21): https://www.authorsguild.org/member-awards/jeff-schnader-wins-quills-creative-writing-contest/
Book Announcement: https://www.authorsguild.org/whats-new/new-books-by-members/
BOOKLOVERS BLOG
January 2022, Middletown Thrall Library
https://www.thrall.org/blogs/booklovers.html#312
BOOKSCOVER2COVER
BOOK REVIEW (10-25-21):
https://bookscover2cover.com/reviews/fiction/the-serpent-papers/
BOOKSCOVER2COVER
PUBLISHED ESSAY, "My Pilgrimage to Publication" by Jeff Schnader (12-21-21):
https://bookscover2cover.com/essays/my-pilgrimage-to-publication/
BOOKSCOVER2COVER
INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR (1-4-22):
https://bookscover2cover.com/interviews/jeff-schnader/
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8127533
CHESAPEAKE BAY WRITERS
Book Page: https://www.chesapeakebaywriters.org/historical-fiction
Author Page: https://www.chesapeakebaywriters.org/members-corner?page=2
April 2022 Newsletter of CBW: See Spotlight News page 6
December 2022 Bay Writers News of CBW: See page 5, Vol 28, Issue 6
CHESAPEAKE STYLE MAGAZINE, BOOKS IN STYLE
BOOK REVIEW (see page 19, NOV 2022 Issue) https://www.chesapeakestyle.com/_files/ugd/2bc64f_57b49f5b33e84a29804e9adf4d074899.pdf
COLUMBIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
BOOKSHELF: https://alumni.columbia.edu/content/serpent-papers
COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY
BOOKSHELF ARTICLE (Winter Issue 2021-22, page 43): https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/winter-2021–22/article/bookshelf
COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY
Class Notes 1975 CC (Winter Issue 2021-22, type in "1975" to see the article): https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/winter-2021–22/article/class-notes
COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY
Class Notes 1966 CC (Spring-Summer Issue 2022, type in "1966" to see):
https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/springsummer-2022/article/class-notes
COLUMBIA DAILY SPECTATOR:
Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
https://tertulia.com/voices/columbia-daily-spectator-books
COLUMBIA DAILY SPECTATOR: https://www.univmeta.com/XX/Unknown/58365309913/Columbia-Daily-Spectator
COLUMBIA FICTION FOUNDRY:
Book Announcement (12-8-21): https://fictionfoundry.alumni.columbia.edu/day_of_days_by_frank_napolitano
COLUMBIA FICTION FOUNDRY:
PUBLISHED ESSAY- "My Pilgrimage to Publication" (2-9-22): https://fictionfoundry.alumni.columbia.edu/jeff_schnader_debut
COLUMBIA FICTION FOUNDRY:
Summer Newsletter (9-15-22):
https://fictionfoundry.alumni.columbia.edu/fiction_foundry_summer_2022_newsletter
COLUMBIA FICTION FOUNDRY:
CFF News Citation (12-16-23):
https://fictionfoundry.alumni.columbia.edu/columbia_fiction_foundry_meets_live_news_from_our_members
THE EDWIN BLACK SHOW
https://theedwinblackshow.com/guests/jeff-schnader
FOREWORD REVIEWS (Jan/Feb 2022):
BOOK REVIEW: https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-serpent-papers/
FOREWORD REVIEWS:
BOOK OF THE DAY (Jan 10-14, 2022):https://www.forewordreviews.com/articles/article/book-of-the-day-roundup-january-10-14-2022/
FOREWORD REVIEWS:
INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR (2-4-22): https://www.forewordreviews.com/articles/article/reviewer-kristine-morris-interviews-jeff-schnader-author-of-the-serpent-papers/
FREDERICKSBURG FREE LANCE-STAR
BOOK REVIEW (1-29-22):
FREDERICKSBURG FREE LANCE-STAR
PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT (4-12-23):
FRAN HAWTHORNE
BACKGROUND READING IN FICTION ON THE 1960s & POLITICAL ACTIVISM
https://www.hawthornewriter.com/background-reading-meant-to-tell-you
GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58231696-the-serpent-papers
GELLES-COLE LITERARY ENTERPRISES
https://www.literaryenterprises.com
GOODREADS REVIEW BY EDITOR SHEILA DEETH:
GOODREADS REVIEW BY ENGLISH LIT FACULTY AARON KAISERMAN:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4582556908?book_show_action=false
HAMPTON ROADS WRITERS: https://hamptonroadswriters.org
JACKET ENDORSEMENT of Prize-Winning Author Steven Mayfield's Novel, "Sixty Seconds"
JAMES RIVER WRITERS:
November 2021 News: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#all/FMfcgzGllCdWmwkNmDqgxSsWSSDSrGkC
Member Bio: https://jamesriverwriters.org/members/membership-account/profile/?pu=267
JEWISH NEWS (UJF of Tidewater, Virginia)
BOOK REVIEW (3-28-22): http://www.jewishnewsva.org/close-to-home/
OR: https://issuu.com/ujft/docs/12_march_28_2022_passover_issuu/1?ff
JEWISH NEWS (UJF of Tidewater, Virginia)
Book Preview (10-21-21): http://www.jewishnewsva.org/new-novel-the-serpent-papers-focuses-on-vietnam-war/
Salute To The Military Supplement: https://issuu.com/ujft/docs/military_supplement_jn_2021
McGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH e-NEWS, Faculty of Medicine
https://healthenews.mcgill.ca/scratching-the-fiction-itch/
OR: https://www.mcgill.ca/facmed-alumni/article/scratching-fiction-itch
UNIV OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW WEBSITE:
MAINE LAW FACULTY SUMMER READING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 2022
— THE SERPENT PAPERS, recommended by Professor of Law & Former Dean of University of Maine School of Law
https://mainelaw.maine.edu/news/maine-law-faculty-summer-reading-recommendations/
NPR, BAUM ON BOOKS (WSHU)
WRITTEN REVIEW & PODCAST (12-9-21):
https://www.wshu.org/podcast/baum-on-books/2021-12-09/book-review-the-serpent-papers
NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS (2-27-22)
BOOK REVIEW: https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/serpent-papers
OAKWOOD REGISTER (2-16-22), Oakwood, OH: https://reader.mediawiremobile.com/TheOakwoodRegister/issues/207708/viewer?page=9
ODU LITERARY FESTIVAL (10-10-24), Norfolk, VA
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY (Speaker)
Website: https://www.odu.edu/life/culture/arts/litfest
THE PERMANENT PRESS:
Website: https://thepermanentpress.com/collections/forthcoming/products/the-serpent-papers
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ThePermanentPress/posts/
PERFIDY PRESS:
Website: https://perfidy.press/the-serpent-papers/
Featured on Amazon Author Page of Geoffrey Dutton: https://www.amazon.com/Geoffrey-Dutton/e/B001K6KWSS
Perfidy: "Books perpetrated by people I know":
https://bookshop.org/lists/books-perpetrated-by-people-i-know
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
GRAB A GALLEY, WINTER-SPRING 2022:
https://grabagalley.publishersweekly.com/contest/winter-spring-2022/?dt=thumb&dc=fiction#display_nav
BOOKLIFE BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
https://booklife.com/profile/jeff-schnader-113360
RAPPAHANNOCK RECORD
Author Announcement for A Ibanez Museum Appearance
https://rrecord.com/authors-to-present-works-at-a-ibanez-studio-gallery/
SHAKESPEARE AUTHORSHIP COALITION
List of Academic Signatories
https://doubtaboutwill.org/signatories/field?page=11
TELL US THE TRUTH RADIO
ON YOU TUBE
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691143512006726
THE RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
BOOK REVIEW (2-19-22):
Same Review on PressReader site:https://www.pressreader.com/usa/richmond-times-dispatch-weekend/20220220/282458532394911
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS MAGAZINE
BOOK CORNER “⭐️Staff Pick⭐️” (Feb 2023)
http://digitaledition.qwinc.com/publication/?m=3914&i=773598&p=54&ver=html5
VIRGINIAN PILOT
LITERARY NOTES:
VIRGINIA WRITERS CLUB
Author Page: https://www.virginiawritersclub.org/Sys/PublicProfile/64907640/946498
THE WRITE LAUNCH LITERARY JOURNAL
Author Page: https://thewritelaunch.com/author/j-schnader/
Writer's Spotlight: https://mailchi.mp/thewritelaunch/writers-at-the-write-launch-spotlight?e=bfa5dc5ca0
The Oma (Aug 2021): https://thewritelaunch.com/2021/08/the-oma/
Durango (Dec 2021): https://thewritelaunch.com/2021/12/durango/
THE WRITE LAUNCH LITERARY JOURNAL
CHAPTERS FROM THE SERPENT PAPERS (Published in Advance):
-NIETZSCHE, SUPERMEN & THE DEATH OF GOD, 2021 https://thewritelaunch.com/author/j-schnader/
-THE SERPENT OF THE APOCALYPSE, 2021 https://thewritelaunch.com/author/j-schnader/
-JUMP, 2020 https://thewritelaunch.com/author/j-schnader/
-ECHOES OF SUNSHINE, 2020 https://thewritelaunch.com/author/j-schnader/
-HEADED TO BABYLON, 2020 https://thewritelaunch.com/author/j-schnader/
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